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society: vote forward and swing left

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Introduction

Since 2018 North Six has worked with Swing Left and Vote Forward on campaigns encouraging acts of volunteerism and civic engagement around voting in America. Vote Forward and Swing Left are nonprofit organizations that empower grassroots volunteers to enable their fellow citizens that are underrepresented in the electorate to vote, intending to strengthen democracy.

IN 2020 SWING LEFT WROTE 21.5M LETTERS, MADE 9.1M CALLS, AND RAISED $26.7M

In 2018 we produced a series of short films to raise awareness for Swing Left’s campaign, The Last Weekend. Encouraging people to vote for the Democratic Party in the midterm elections, the videos featured celebrities such as Uzo Aduba, Hillary Clinton, Lena Dunham, Kathryn Hahn, Indya Moore, Tracie Ellis Ross, Elizabeth Warren, and Kerry Washington. The Democratic Party went on to win control of The House of Representatives, gaining 41 more seats than in 2016.

In 2020 we produced an animated short film for Vote Forward’s campaign, The Big Send. Vote Forward believes that grassroots community action inspires change, so The Big Send encouraged letter writing to engage voters during the covid-19 pandemic. The animated film included voiceovers by Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon and was animated by Måns Swanberg; 21.5 million letters were written as a result.

For our most recent work with Vote Forward, in 2022, North Six organized two in-person letter-writing events alongside Planned Parenthood. Happening simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles, they focused on key states with pivotal races in the midterms. Encouraging people to come out and write letters among their peers, the events aimed to write 10K letters in one day collectively. With over 400 attendees combined, we achieved our goal while providing music, entertainment, celebrity appearances, and food and drink from some of each city's most coveted restaurants. Our event was one of the biggest in-person events Vote Forward has ever held, with the largest concentration of letters written.

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